Literacy In Children With Disabilities

Children with disabilities may not be able to control parent-child exchanges connected to reading which is considered to be an essential part of home literacy experiences which can affect primary literacy acquisition. Parents of children with learning disabilities might not have the capacity or capability to help the child for reading books, and they also might dominate communication if the child does not have the capability to communicate. To make it easier for children to handle books, adaptations are available for turning pages. Page fluffers can be made by putting a large dot of hot glue in the corner of the page.

This keeps the pages slightly apart so that the child can insert his/her hand to turn the page. Another way of turning the page is available with Velcro which is attached in the middle of the page on the far right side which pulls the page over the previous or next one. Small ponytail holders can also be used to the moveable part of a book that has popped up features and children can enjoy the pop-up part of the book. Because the developments of verbal skills are an important part of early literacy attainment, the software can be effectively used to teach children with communication disabilities. Communication displays can be used with greater benefits for children with disabilities.

The software has been developed by which enables children to manipulate objects which are attached to Velcro-sensitive cover on the keys. The software program becomes active when the child touches the objects, and this enables children to take an active part to create and communicate their own stories. The figures on this software can be printed and used on a board or book for communication activities. This serves to increase the understanding or early learning capabilities when they act out their own created stories with the help of the software. Books can also be used in a tangible manner to educate children, especially children that suffer from visual impairment. Very young children need different ways to incite them into action in order to acquire knowledge in objects around them.

With the addition of specially printed books, children can further read and understand the character in these books and obtain more information about such objects by touching them. One very visible advantage of printing books from computers is that the pictures can be easily enlarged for children who face visual difficulties in reading smaller books. Children are encouraged to repeat lines in books because that improves the learning process. Children who find it difficult to pronounce words can make use of a small communication device which says words when the surface is depressed. There are several such devices available commercially which can record and repeat words for use by the children for learning reading and writing